A 16-minute love letter to cinema's power to reach where Netflix fears to tread.
Idealized by the filmmakers Lais Bodansky and Luiz Bolognesi, the documentary portrays the projects executed by the Buriti Institute and Buriti Films in 10 years of work. Since 2004, projects collect impressive numbers: 116,509 kilometers were driven on roads, which led to 759 outlying neighborhoods, where they were made 7439 film sessions to 1,355,403 brazilians. Eighteen states and the Federal District were visited by Cine Tela Brasil, who put brazilian various ages for the first time in a movie theater.
Direction
Bodanzky & Bolognesi capture genuine joy, not poverty tourism.
Production
Insane logistics: 116k km of roads to show films.
Director
Laís Bodanzky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cine Tela Brasil specifically targeted 'periferias' — Brazilian urban peripheries where multiplexes literally don't exist.
Lais Bodanzky is one of Brazil's most acclaimed female directors; this short doc is basically her flexing that she built an entire distribution infrastructure when distributors ignored these communities.
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